roadblocked

verb

past tense of roadblock
as in blocked

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadblocked
  1. blocked
  2. barricaded
  3. delayed
  4. blockaded
  5. arrested
  6. mired
  7. retained
  8. bound
Verb
  • Last month, a judge blocked Iron Mountain from deleting or modifying the data.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • In the city of Togane in central Chiba, a landslide blocked a road.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of blocked
Verb
  • By the time deputies arrived, the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home, authorities said.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The man barricaded himself inside his house when deputies arrived, according to the sheriff's department.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of barricaded
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  • The game was delayed 88 minutes by rain in the eighth inning.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The Braves lost to the Twins, 4-2, in the series opener, a game delayed 51 minutes because of inclement weather and then began with an opening frame that probably had Braves faithful wishing there’d been a lengthier postponement.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of delayed
Verb
  • Iran’s proxies in the region, the Houthis, have since blockaded another strait – the Bab-al-Mandeb – challenging Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil through that alternate route.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • During the early nineteen-eighties, when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to twenty per cent in the face of rampant inflation, furious farmers blockaded the Fed’s headquarters with their tractors.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of blockaded
Verb
  • Hal is arrested, per his plan, as John meets and sleeps with a mysterious woman, Zoe (Poorna Jagannathan), and uses Hal’s ring to light her cigarette after the fact.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
  • He was arrested in Orlando in March 2023 on charges including first-degree murder and solicitation to commit a capital felony.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrested
Verb
  • News of the sale comes as Walter’s financial business is mired in legal trouble.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The 30-year-old Watson's tenure with the Browns has been mired by injuries and turmoil.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of mired
Verb
  • Elsewhere, Wrexham and Birmingham City, promoted together from League One in 2025, are looking to improve once again, while Millwall and Derby County have retained the core of the squads that finished third and eighth respectively in May.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • And when the researchers moved the reward around within the familiar surroundings, the cell body adjusted quickly, while certain dendrites retained remnants of the earlier activity.
    — Ajdina Halilovic, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of retained
Verb
  • How Leaders Should Prepare The organizations that get this right will be the ones that deploy agents where the work is bounded, the data is clean and the accountability is clear.
    — Tammy Hawes, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • With the sprightly energy of a schoolboy, Jean-Paul Doron bounds into an empty creek, his red suede shoes scraping pale rocks.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of bound
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